Day in Pictures, Dec. 9, 2013

December 9, 2013 |By Mike Moffitt

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Father of communism treated like pinata: In Kiev, an anti-government protester uses a sledgehammer to smash the statue of the man forever associated with the hammer and sickle - Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. The chaotic protest further raised tensions in the Ukrainian capital.

Sergei Chuzavkov/Associated Press

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Father of communism treated like pinata: In Kiev, an anti-government protester uses a sledgehammer to smash the statue of the man forever associated with the hammer and sickle - Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. The chaotic protest further raised tensions in the Ukrainian capital.